No smooth transition in Debian

Bugreport 638019 appears to be very straight forward, until the code finally hit Debian Testing last weekend. A simple relocation of a FIFO-buffer from /dev to /run caused direct trouble for machines with systemd and a normal shutdown wasn’t possible anymore. Both bugs 657979 and 657990 are a results of the modification. Seeing the overview of effected files and made me go back to the previous working release of source package sysvinit with the following commands

It sounds strange for Linux-people, but I really wished I had an alternative boot environment like Solaris has. Maybe this is the reason for me to invest more time in read-write within BtrFS.

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Hans Spaans

Unix & security consultant with a passion for Linux, Solaris, PostgreSQL, Perl and network services, but also a strong believer in open and free source, standards and content.
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